Professor
Call: +34 976 761 945
Email: imr@unizar.es
Address: D2.05, Dpto. IEC, Edif. Ada Byron, C/ María de Luna, 1 50018 (Zaragoza, Spain)
ABOUT ME
Ignacio Martínez Ruiz is Professor (PhD in Telecommunications Engineering) at University of Zaragoza (UZ) with 2 six-year research periods, 3 five-year teaching periods and 6 three-year university periods and has received 12 national and 1 regional awards, including: “Best Doctoral Thesis in Multimedia Services” in 2007, “Best Junior Company – Aragón Information Society” in 2014, “Best UZ Patent” in 2017, “Best Healthy Living Habits APP” in 2017, “Best Digital Health APP” in 2018, “Ship2B seal of social impact” in 2019 and“ Smart Positive Health Certificate (S+I) DKV” in 2021.
With more than 20 years of experience, including Enterprise Affairs Manager within School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA.UZ) and Manager of Innovation in Technologies and eHealth within Aragón Bioregion (BioMed), he is Finance Director of UZ, Inycom Chair Director, member of the HOWLab R&D Group (recognized by the Government of Aragon) of the Aragon Engineering Research Institute (I3A.UZ), R&D+i advisor in technological innovation for companies, AENOR expert evaluator for R&D projects, and active member of the main Committees of National and International eHealth Experts (AEN / CTN139 TICs for Health, COIT eHealth, etc.)
In addition to multiple management positions and more than 45 conferences and seminars, as an expert in technologies and eHealth he has led more than 45 R&D+i projects with 36 recognized scientific publications with more than 620 citations and more than 17800 readings including 14 international JCR indexed journals (with 4 articles of excellence published in the first decile of the journal area), more than 105 contributions to national and international conferences (including 4 best papers and 7 international papers on Teaching Innovation), 3 doctoral theses and 1 working patent.
In the professional sector, his key topics are Digital Health, Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 and he inspires organizations to anticipate trends from a different view since “innovation is seeing what everyone saw and thinking what nobody thought “: the best way to predict the future is to create it …
PUBLICATIONS
2019
Blanco, Teresa; Casas, Roberto; Marco, Álvaro; Martínez, Ignacio
Micro ad-hoc Health Social Networks (uHSN). Design and evaluation of a social-based solution for patient support Journal Article
In: Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol. 89, pp. 68-80, 2019, ISSN: 1532-0464.
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To contribute the design, development, and assessment of a new concept: Micro ad hoc Health Social Networks (uHSN), to create a social-based solution for supporting patients with chronic disease.
Design
After in-depth fieldwork and intensive co-design over a 4-year project following Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), this paper contributes a new paradigm of uHSN, defining two interaction areas (the “backstage”, the sphere invisible to the final user, where processes that build services take place; and the “onstage”, the visible part that includes the patients and relatives), and describes a new transversal concept, i.e., “network spaces segments,” to provide timely interaction among all involved profiles and guaranteeing qualitative relationships. This proposal is applicable to any service design project and to all types of work areas; in the present work, it served as a social-based solution for supporting patients with chronic disease in two real-life health scenarios: a Parkinson disease patient association and a Stroke rehabilitation service in a hospital. These two scenarios included the following main features: thematic (related to the specific disease), private, and secure (only for the patient, relatives, healthcare professional, therapist, carer), with defined specific objectives (around patient support), small size (from tens to hundreds of users), ability to integrate innovative services (e.g., connection to hospital information service or to health sensors), supported by local therapeutic associations, and clustered with preconfigured relationships among users based in network groups.
Measurements
Using a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach for 6 months, the performance of the uHSN was assessed in the two environments: a hospital rehabilitation unit working with Stroke patients, and a Parkinson disease association providing physiotherapy, occupational therapy, psychological support, speech therapy, and social services. We describe the proposed methods for evaluating the uHSN quantitatively and qualitatively, and how the scientific community can replicate and/or integrate this contribution in its research.
Results
The uHSN overcomes the main limitations of traditional HSNs in the main areas recommended in the literature: privacy, security, transparency, system ecology, Quality of Service (QoS), and technology enhancement. The qualitative and quantitative research demonstrated its viability and replicability in four key points: user acceptance, productivity improvement, QoS enhancement, and fostering of social relations. It also meets the expectation of connecting health and social worlds, supporting distance rehabilitation, improving professionals’ efficiency, expanding users’ social capital, improving information quality and immediacy, and enhancing perceived peer/social/emotional support. The scientific contributions of the present paper are the first step not only in customizing health solutions that empower patients, their families, and healthcare professionals, but also in transferring this new paradigm to other scientific, professional, and social environments to create new opportunities.},
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To contribute the design, development, and assessment of a new concept: Micro ad hoc Health Social Networks (uHSN), to create a social-based solution for supporting patients with chronic disease.
Design
After in-depth fieldwork and intensive co-design over a 4-year project following Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), this paper contributes a new paradigm of uHSN, defining two interaction areas (the “backstage”, the sphere invisible to the final user, where processes that build services take place; and the “onstage”, the visible part that includes the patients and relatives), and describes a new transversal concept, i.e., “network spaces segments,” to provide timely interaction among all involved profiles and guaranteeing qualitative relationships. This proposal is applicable to any service design project and to all types of work areas; in the present work, it served as a social-based solution for supporting patients with chronic disease in two real-life health scenarios: a Parkinson disease patient association and a Stroke rehabilitation service in a hospital. These two scenarios included the following main features: thematic (related to the specific disease), private, and secure (only for the patient, relatives, healthcare professional, therapist, carer), with defined specific objectives (around patient support), small size (from tens to hundreds of users), ability to integrate innovative services (e.g., connection to hospital information service or to health sensors), supported by local therapeutic associations, and clustered with preconfigured relationships among users based in network groups.
Measurements
Using a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach for 6 months, the performance of the uHSN was assessed in the two environments: a hospital rehabilitation unit working with Stroke patients, and a Parkinson disease association providing physiotherapy, occupational therapy, psychological support, speech therapy, and social services. We describe the proposed methods for evaluating the uHSN quantitatively and qualitatively, and how the scientific community can replicate and/or integrate this contribution in its research.
Results
The uHSN overcomes the main limitations of traditional HSNs in the main areas recommended in the literature: privacy, security, transparency, system ecology, Quality of Service (QoS), and technology enhancement. The qualitative and quantitative research demonstrated its viability and replicability in four key points: user acceptance, productivity improvement, QoS enhancement, and fostering of social relations. It also meets the expectation of connecting health and social worlds, supporting distance rehabilitation, improving professionals’ efficiency, expanding users’ social capital, improving information quality and immediacy, and enhancing perceived peer/social/emotional support. The scientific contributions of the present paper are the first step not only in customizing health solutions that empower patients, their families, and healthcare professionals, but also in transferring this new paradigm to other scientific, professional, and social environments to create new opportunities.
2016
Dufo-López, Rodolfo; Pérez-Cebollada, Eduardo; Bernal-Agustín, José L; Martínez, Ignacio
Optimisation of energy supply at off-grid healthcare facilities using Monte Carlo simulation Journal Article
In: Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 113, pp. 321–330, 2016.
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year = {2016},
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Martínez, Ignacio; Cohen, David Sancho; Marco, Álvaro
Iso/ieee11073 family of standards: Trends and applications on e-health monitoring Book Section
In: Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine, pp. 646–660, IGI Global, 2016.
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2015
Perez-Cebollada, Eduardo; Martínez, Ignacio; Bernal-Agustin, Jose L
Conceptual schemes for M2M architectures in e-health context. A comprehensive use cases review and standardization trends Journal Article
In: Dyna, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 96–104, 2015.
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García, Del Valle P; Vilaseca, JD Trigo; Martínez, Ignacio; Calvo, Escayola J; Cámara, Martínez-Espronceda M; Arriezu, Serrano L; Moros, García J
Interoperabilidad de dispositivos médicos mediante el estándar ISO/IEEE 11073 sobre tecnología Bluetooth Journal Article
In: diec. unizar. es, pp. 1–4, 2015.
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